Police Fatally Shoot Texas Escapee Who Killed 5 While on Run

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41% : He was being transported from a prison in Gatesville, more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of the place where he escaped, to one in Huntsville for a medical appointment when he escaped in Leon County, a rural area between Dallas and Houston, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has said.
38% : Authorities in Atascosa County -- about 220 miles (354 kilometers) southwest of the cabin -- recognized the stolen pickup from an alert sent out hours earlier by law enforcement and stopped it with spike strips, Clark said.
37% : A convicted murderer on the run since escaping a prison bus after stabbing its driver last month was fatally shot by law enforcement after he killed a family of five and stole a truck from a rural weekend cabin, a Texas prison system spokesman said.
37% :Gonzalo Lopez, 46, died in a shootout with police late Thursday in Jourdanton, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) south of San Antonio, after driving the pickup more than 200 miles (322 kilometers) from the cabin, said Jason Clark, spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

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